%0 Journal Article
%T Early diagnosis of relapse in borderline leprosy: two case reports
%A Brand£żo
%A Maria Luiza Figueiredo Braga
%A Lima
%A C¨Şntia Maria Oliveira
%A Pi£żeiro-Maceira
%A Juan
%A Miranda
%A Alice
%A Oliveira
%A M.Leide W. de
%J Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S£żo Paulo
%D 2011
%I Instituto de Medicina Tropical
%R 10.1590/S0036-46652011000600008
%X two cases of relapse in borderline leprosy were reported. despite the late-reversal, reaction-like feature, the suspicion of relapse in both was based on persistent and slow-developing skin lesions and an absence of acute neuritis or reaction during one year of follow-up. the authors have considered this possible occurrence in lepromatous borderline-treated patients after their immune cellular restoration and defend that not all type 1 reactions would be an inflammatory answer to persistent mycobacterium leprae, but that they could be. therefore, a relapse diagnosis could be applied and it is more advisable, as one year of multi-drug therapy (mdt) is less dangerous and more efficient for these cases than one year of corticosteroids.
%K leprosy
%K relapse
%K borderline leprosy.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0036-46652011000600008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en